>>> "cbs evening news with katie couric" is next. >> couric: day 87 and look at this: for the first time in nearly three months, no oil is flowing out of the b.p. well. is this the turning point we've been waiting for? i'm katie couric. also tonight, a record fine for goldman sachs. the financial giant will pay more than half a billion dollars to settle charges it defrauded investors with securities designed to fail. f.d.a. health experts reject the first new prescription drug for weight loss in more than a decade, but there are more in the pipeline. and she's making baseball history-- she and her knuckleball. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. it has to be the most beautiful sight we've seen the gulf of mexico in three long months. not a drop of oil coming out of that b.p. well for the first time since the rig exploded. but this is not the end of the crisis. now the waiting begins to see if the cap over the well can withstand the pressure of the gushing oil. and ev

"cbs evening news with katie couric" is coming up next. good night. says the leakers of the those secret war documents may have cost soldiers their lives. and in this most-revered of military cemeteries, a growing scandal over mis-marked graves. i'm katie couric. also tonight, fallen heros and grieving families. are they being ripped off by life insurance companies? the government is investigating. calcium supplements-- millions take them but a new study says they can raise your risk of heart attack. and man's best friend, for a very good reason. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. the obama administration has been saying there's nothing much new in those field reports from the afghan war, but posting some 76,000 of them on the internet, that's a whole other matter. the military said today the leak may have already cost the lives of american soldiers and their allies. and the f.b.i. has been called in now to help track down whoeve

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katie? >> couric: jan, i know the n.a.a.c.p. initially condemned sherrod's remarks but now that organization has put out a new statement. >> reporter: katie, they just released a statement. they said they were snookered by these initial reports, they were completely changing course on this. they're urging the secretary to reconsider firing her and they said the speech was deliberately edited to create a false impression of racial bias. >> couric: all right, jan crawford in washington. jan, thanks very much. in other news, the meltdown in the housing market and the financial crisis that followed. congress is slowly peeling back the layers as it investigates who's to blame. new documents reveal a cozy tie between two key players that cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. sharyl attkisson tonight follows the money. >> reporter: the partnership between countrywide and government-backed fannie mae is partly to blame for the housing crisis. they made billions buying and selling each other's toxic loans. but as they were sending

katie. >> couric: chip reed at the white house, thanks very much. what is the outlook for what's become america's longest war, a year before the president plans to start winding it down? our national security correspondent david martin has an assessment. >> reporter: u.s. marines raising the american flag in khandahar. the spiritual heartland of the taliban. that was nine years ago, and everybody was feeling it. >> this fight is over. for the al qaeda. this fight is over. for the taliban. >> reporter: the man who led those marines was general james mattis. so there was bitter irony in the room today when mattis now wearing four stars sat down for his confirmation hearing as commander of all u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. the man who once stood on the verge of victory now says the outcome is uncertain. >> i believe it will be a difficult summer right into the fall. >> reporter: what happened? in a word iraq. the invasion and occupation sucked up troops and technology. afghanistan became what's called an economy of force operation, a euphemism m

i'm katie couric. also tonight, burned to the ground-- wildfires destroy dozens of homes in southern california and force thousands to evacuate. how insurance companies are making profits off the death benefits of fallen heroes. and spectacle on the hudson-- the town that's getting ready for the wedding of the year. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. arizona's new immigration law will go into effect just after midnight tonight but without its most controversial provision. a federal judge in phoenix put them on hold today while a challenge to the law, filed by the obama administration, works its way through the courts. so blocked for now are provisions requiring a police officer who stops someone for any law enforcement reason to check his immigration status. requiring immigrants to carry their papers at all times. and making it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employmen

katie? >> couric: anthony mason. anthony, thanks so much. here's a comment from one of our viewers about the unemployment benefits that will be voted on tomorrow. bill plante is our senior white house correspondent. bill, is that doable? >> reporter: no can do, katie. they'd have to change the law. there's plenty of tarp money, $194 billion has been paid back and the government has earned $23 billion in interest. but they have to use that money to pay down the deficit. so they'd have to change the law to pay unemployment benefits with it. >> couric: all right. bill plante at the white house. bill, thanks so much. and still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," he's an ob-gyn who hit the big 1-0-0 and he's still practicing. tonight's "assignment america." but up next, an off beat campaign in an off-year election. [ male announcer ] if you've had a heart attack caused by a completely blocked artery, another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a heart attack that's caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save l

i'm katie couric. also tonight, as taxpayers were bailing out banks, they were giving executives big bonuses. but the federal pay czart ays he can't get the money back. ( explosion ) a dramatic escalation of the mexican drug war as drug lords set off their first car bomb. and remembering veteran journalist daniel schorr. >> this is daniel schorr in moscow. now back to cbs news in new york. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. bonnie lies over the ocean, or in this case, the gulf. and she's put the oil cleanup on hold. after crossing south florida today, bonnie was downgraded to a tropical depression but could become a tropical storm again over the warm waters of the gulf. in the next two days it is expected to come close to the site of the massive oil spill, so b.p. is pulling most of its oil recovery ships out of the area. and the cleanup and the drilling of relief wells has been s

katie. >> couric: david martin at the pentagon, thank you. chief foreign affairs correspondent lara logan lived in afghanistan for a year at the beginning of the war. she's been back many times since. she's in the east african nation of uganda tonight on assignment for "60 minutes." lara, one of the revelations in these documents is that pakistan's intelligence agency is aiding the afghan insurgency, even planning attacks on american troops. how big a setback will this be for u.s.-pakistani relations? >> well, it's potentially a setback, katie. clearly the white house is concerned about that. because their relationship with pakistan is very sensitive. it's a complicated one. on the one hand pakistan is important ally. on the other hand, pakistan has known to be harboring al qaeda and the taliban from the beginning of this war. but the obama administration has been quick to point to the fact that pakistan has been taking more action than in the past. these documents only go up to december of last year. at the same time, it is clear that al qae

i'm katie couric. also tonight, she wanted to talk to the president. today shirley sherrod, fired by the u.s.d.a., got the call and another apology. are illegal immigrants raising the crime rate? some argue yes; others no. we'll give you the facts. and happy thursday-- or is it? tracking the mood of america tweet by tweet. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. a tropical storm has just formed in the caribbean and by saturday it could be churning through the site of the massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico, disrupting the cleanup for days, even weeks. some cleanup boats were sent back to port today. the large oil recovery ships may follow. tropical storm bonnie is north of cuba right now, and over the next few days it's projected to pass through the florida keys and then into the gulf. even so, federal officials said today they will keep the cap on that ruptured well. and the white house said the president, who's been urging americ

sherrod is owed an apology. >> couric: i'm katie couric. also tonight, small towns, huge salaries. outrage in california where the city manager makes nearly twice as much as the president of the united states. it's a reenactment, but investigators say this is what happened when a north korean torpedo struck a south korean warship. and he's no houdini, but he did turn a cell phone into a porsche. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. it was an extraordinary scene on national television today. the president's top spokesman admitting the administration had fired an official of the agriculture department for alleged racism without knowing all the facts, and then he offered her an apology. but it didn't stop there. the man who fired shirley sherrod, agriculture secretary tom vilsack, soon popped up on tv himself and offered her another job. all this while the nation watched her watch them. we begin tonight with jan crawford in washington. jan, this is a very bizarre t

"cbs evening news with katie couric" is next. thanks for joining us. >> couric: i'm katie couric aboard the "helix producer" and after a day of delays, b.p. is getting ready to test the new well cap. >> i remain gung-ho for this test. >> also tonight, government health experts recommend keeping the popular diabetes drug avandia on the market despite continuing safety concerns. and the n.a.a.c.p. accuses the tea party movement of tolerating bigotry. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone, we here in new orleans just back from the gulf of mexico where b.p. is about to take a big step in trying to get control of the oil leak. it will test the new containment cap it installed on the well those see if it can handle the pressure of the oil pushing into it. that test had been delayed today out of what the government called "an abundunce of caution." the concern was that putting more pressure on the already damaged wellb

i'm katie couric. also tonight, the british ambassador says it was a mistake to release the pan am 103 bomber. now congress wants to know whether he was freed under pressure from b.p. an i-fix for an iphone. this is apple's solution for its faulty antennas. and, it's not your father's old spice ad. the familiar face is gone and the new one's gone viral. >> should your men smell like an old spice man? captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening. for a second day, no oil is gushing into the gulf of mexico and that new cap seems to be doing its job. but the tests are not over. admiral thad allen said so far it's generally good news, no oil leaking up from the sea floor but the pressure readings under the cap are not as good as the experts were hoping for. president obama said today the job won't be done until the well is completely killed and he reminded americans there is still an enormous cleanup job.

i'm katie couric. also tonight, b.p. scales back its cleanup while insisting it's still committed to restoring the gulf. casualties of war-- at least 66 americans killed in afghanistan in july, more than any other month, leaving families back home living in fear. plus, bless the beasts and children-- a special program that helps them both. captioning sponsored by cbs >> couric: good evening, everyone. just when you thought you could breathe a sigh of relief, some discouraging economic news today. the recovery is sputtering. the government reported the economy grew by just 2.4% between april and june. that's a much slower rate than the previous three quarters. and job creation-- well, that's still a big problem. so, how much trouble is ahead? here's our senior business correspondent, anthony mason. >> reporter: the recovery lost momentum in the second quarter, but the economy has now been growing steadily for a full year. >> so why don't we feel better? just because you get to the recovery room doesn't mean that you feel

cbs's katie couric has details on the investigation. >> reporter: it's being called the life insurance industry's dirty little secret. revelations that the nation's second largest insurer was profiting from the death benefit of fallen soldiers. >> until today i actually believed that the families of our fallen heroes got a check for the full amount. of their benefit. so, this came as news to me. >> it's sad. >> reporter: survivors like cindy lohman whose son ryan was killed in afghanistan believed they would be getting checks, too. instead they were told their death benefits were being placed in a secure interest-bearing account. but the funds are actually held in the company's own general corporate account, allowing prudential to earn the lion's share of the interest for itself. >> i was stunned to realize that, yeah, i had been duped. >> reporter: in 2008 when cindy lohman's statement said she was earning less than 1% interest on her alliance account, public records show prudential was earning almost 5% on its corporate account. >> when i read about it and saw how despicable it was,

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